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March 25, 2026
Eat the Rich March 25, 2026

Tamales, Gumbo, and the Cost of Belonging

I once unwrapped a New Orleans-style tamale at midnight—grease-soaked paper, steam rising into a muggy summer sky—and thought: this tastes like a border. A line crossed. A story…

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Eat the Rich March 25, 2026

Eat the Rich: A Provocative Exploration of Food and Capital

Food is one of the basic human needs implying the food industry itself has been in existence since the beginning of humanity. Food as a commodity can be…

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  • EAT THE RICH

    Read our latest issue on the theme: EAT THE RICH. Dismantle the recipes of social dynamics.

    The Inquisitive Eater’s Fall 2025 issue is centered on the relationship between food and capital. These works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art complicate and subvert conventional understandings of food and class. Here, writers and artists inspect consumption, excess, cannibalism, accessibility, privilege. 

    READ THE ISSUE HERE.

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